N-of-5 Minutes Stats-of-1

How can we monitor your health in a way that is personally meaningful?



Diogo Branco is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Lisbon. His research focuses on human computer interaction, particularly in pervasive health care. Over the past five years, he has dedicated his research to designing, developing, and evaluating applications and platforms in various health care fields including Parkinson's disease.



Throughout his PhD, Diogo's primary objective is to utilize personalized tracking mechanisms to improve treatment adherence among individuals with Parkinson's and increased data availability for clinicians. In this episode, he talks to us about some of his work with patients with Parkinson's disease, with a focus on how we can make health monitoring easy and engaging so patients and clinicians can both benefit.

How can we support people that have an intense reaction to certain sounds?

⁠Dr. Kibby McMahon⁠ is a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and the co-host of ‘A Little Help for our Friends’⁠ podcast. Kibby completed her undergraduate degree at Columbia University, her PhD at Duke University in the Clinical Psychology program and her pre-doctoral internship at Cornell and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, where she investigated novel treatments for misophonia in which people are intensely bothered by specific sounds (for more description of condition check out this website). Having been trained in several forms of evidence-based psychotherapies, Kibby treats adults with a range of mental health struggles, particularly depression, anxiety, personality disorders, trauma, and general relationship problems. Her passion lies in helping people connect more deeply to themselves and to others.

Ali Boolani is a multidisciplinary scientist whose work is focused on identifying feelings of mental and physical energy and fatigue and prescribing inter and intra individual interventions. His work is trying to identify intra individual differences in interventions to modify fatigue led to his interest in learning more about stats of one. He's currently the PI of the Mental Performance Lab at the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, and is interested in using these methods to improve his work.

How can we create personalized support for people with Diabetes using mobile devices?

In this episode, Dr Simon Harper talks about his work creating computer algorithms that monitor and adapt to people's behavior to provide them with personalized support to manage their Type I Diabetes. Dr Harper is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Manchester. His work is centered on understanding, predicting and influencing a user's behavior in the real-world and through interfaces and information, while taking into account cognitive, behavioral, perceptual and technological factors. His contributions lie in the development of adaptive user models of extreme users and/or extreme environments.

How can we help people get the most out of therapy?

In this episode, Dr Julianne Wilner Tirpak talks about her work exploring personalized therapy approaches for adolescents that engage in high risk behavior. Dr Wilner Tirpak is a clinical psychologist at McLean Hospital in Boston where she researches treatments for adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder, self-harm behaviors, and anxiety.

What is it like to teach, research, and consult on N-of-1 trials and SCED?

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Patrick Onghena. Dr. Onghena is a professor of educational and behavioral statistics and methodology at KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Belgium. Since the 1990s, he has been working as a researcher, teacher, and consultant using methods and techniques for N-of-1 trials and Single Case Experimental Designs. Currently, he is involved in multiple research projects that support varied therapeutic areas. His research interests include single-case experimental designs, distribution-free statistical inference, meta-analysis, systematic reviews, mixed methods research, and research on statistics education and probabilistic reasoning. In this episode he shared his thoughtful views on how SCED can be used to improve treatments and advance research.

Small is beautiful {once more}. The third international N=1 Symposium, April 2023